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logical Survey in India, Vol. XXXIV, Part 2 ; Administration Reports of the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon, 1905, I art IV ; Bird Notes and News. Vol. II, 

 Nos. 2 and 3 ; The Mammals collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott in the Rhi .-linga 

 Archipelago, by G. S. Miller ; Bulletin de la Societe Eoyale de l^otanique de 

 Belgique, Annee 1904-U5 ; Department of Agriculture, Bombay, Bulletin 

 No. 27 ; Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India, Vol. I, No. 4 ; 

 Note on the Chilgoza Forests of Zob and Takht-i-Suliman Forest bulletin, 

 No. 7, by E. P. Stebbing ; Notes on the Influence of Forests on the Storage 

 and Regulation of Water Supply, Forest Bulletin, No. 9, by S. Eardley 

 Wilmot. 



EXHIBITS. 



Mr. H. S. Symons exhibited a snare -which was used by the natives for 

 snaring quail. It was obtained at Aligaum near Poona. 



Lieut. P. Beaumont (South Lancashire Regiment) exhibited an exception- 

 ally fine Chital or spotted-deer head which was greatly a<hnired. The horns 

 measured 38| inches in length, 30^ widest span (outside) and 25| from tip to 

 tip. The stag was obtained in April last by Mr. Beaumont in the Central 

 Province jungles. 



PAPERS READ. 



1. Importance of a knowledge of the Biting Flies of India, by Col. W. B. . 

 Bannerman, I.M.S. 



2. On a new species of Grey Duck from Burma, by E. W. Oates. 



3. Destruction of Mosquitoes and their larvaB by Fish and Lime, by General; 

 W. Osborn. 



4. Do bats capture and eat birds ? by E. E, Green, F.E.S., &c. 



5. Abnormal antlers of the Chital (Cenus o;r?"s\ by Lieut. J. A. Field, R.E. . 



6. A live Takin (Builorcas taxicolor') , by Lieut. F. M. Bailey. 



7. Breeding grounds of the Common Locust, by E. H. Aitken. 



